Question

In AD 787, the Scandinavians invaded England, followed by the Norman French in 1066. As the Anglo-Saxon language mingled with the Scandinavian language and French, many words that we still use today were born. Where did each of the words shown originate? Petite blunder ugly craze touché cuisine

Answer 1

French Words

Petite: late 18th century: French, feminine of petit ‘small’.

Touche: 1902, from French touché, past participle of toucher "to hit".

Cuisine: 1786, from French cuisine "style of cooking".

Scandinavian Words

Ugly: "frightful or horrible in appearance," from a Scandinavian source.

Craze: "to shatter, crush, break to pieces, from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse *krasa"shatter".

Blunder: "to stumble about blindly," from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse blundra.

Answer 2

English words from French origin:

-Petite (French "small")

-Touché (French "touch")

-Cuisine (French "cooking")

English words from Scandinavian origin:

-Blunder (Swedish "clumsiness")

-Ugly (Swedish "horrible" -ohygglig-)

-Craze (Swedish "mania")

English is an Indo-European language of the western Germanic group. Although due to the sociolinguistic of the British islands from the Viking invasions and the subsequent Norman invasion, has received important loans from the northern Germanic languages and French, and much of its lexicon has been reworked with Latin cultism. The last two influences make English probably one of the most atypical Germanic languages in both vocabulary and grammar.